Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn
Paul Benjamin "Ben" Mendelsohnis an Australian actor, who first rose to prominence for his role in the Australian film The Year My Voice Brokeand continued to have major roles in Australian films such as The Big Steal, Metal Skin, Cosi, Mulletand Australia...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth3 April 1969
CountryAustralia
along cried crying days five four happened mom suddenly
I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for about four or five days afterwards. I'd be going along during the day and suddenly start crying over what had happened to the little deer.
hope intensive relationship
I have an intensive relationship with the thing that I'm working on, and I hope that comes through. It's better for me to not worry about the things I can't fix once they're done.
good home keeps kept might plan viable
I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very good thing. I think if I had a viable plan B, I might not have kept going.
kept
I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.
age home paying skip start
I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
alan laura placed quite san tom
I did 'Quigley Down Under,' which is quite deliberately placed in Australia, which is a Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, Laura San Giacomo film from '88, I want to say.
crack found happiest life next reached sissy spent trying twenty
As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline' set and found my name on a chair next to Sissy Spacek's was the happiest of my working life.
both people scary
'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.
might time younger
You feel an affinity with younger actors, because, you know, it's a very insecure job. And it can be a long time before you feel like, you know, things might be all right.
moving people long
As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.
kind film carnivals
Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.
thinking life-is
Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.
teaching catholic stuff
I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.
who-i-am people ends
People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.